Victor Mahillon recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio.
Full Profile(Editor’s Note: Like this post? You might also be interested in our free report, Up-and-Coming Hot Spots for Venture Capital) As a nice follow-up to my older blog post that discusses the best cities to launch a startup, today we’ll go over cities with the most growth and employment opportunities in the technology space. In…
A lot of old-school recruiters maintain that social media is not an effective way to recruit top talent. They’re positive that the best way to recruit is to pick up the phone and hammer calls all day long. Sure, Facebook has 500 million monthly users, but how does that translate in terms of securing employment?…
There are so many ways to make a recruiter want to immediately put your resume through the shredder. However, these 8 serious no-nos come to mind and really make me shudder: 1) Listing your current or past company as “Confidential” Why? If anything, it sounds to me like you weren’t working at all and are…
A few weeks ago, I was commenting on an interesting blog post and video at Dice, a career site for technology and engineering professionals. In the video, several recruiters were asked, “What is your most innovative recruiting tip for 2012?” Several answers were given: Twitter, networking events, referrals, brand-building, YouTube, video interviewing, Facebook, Google+, personal…
We’re currently interviewing candidates to join our People (Recruiting) Team here at OpenView Venture Partners. I spoke with a candidate who currently only recruits people for VP roles and above. This is actually the opposite of our model here, as we recruit for all sorts of positions from entry level all the way up to…
This week marks my 1-year anniversary (and 50th blog post) at OpenView Venture Partners. I took a few minutes to look back at everyone I successfully recruited. Part of this reminiscing involved looking back at previous job descriptions that I worked off. I realized that just about every single position I recruited for at the…
Last week I did something that I haven’t done in quite a while. There was a candidate who really caught my eye on LinkedIn. After he accepted my inMail and invitation to connect, we exchanged a few messages, and he said he was interested in taking a look at a job description for the role…
Absolutely. Whether we’re recruiting people at the Analyst or Associate level at OpenView Venture Partners, the fundamental skills are there. However, it’s important to understand the key differences between venture capital and private equity. While both invest in companies and look to make money from them, here’s where they vary: Venture Capital focuses on technology…
Recruiting for a corporation is so incredibly different to recruiting for an expansion stage technology startup. In a Fortune 500 company, it’s normal for a requisition to take weeks — even months — for final approval. There are so many layers of red tape involved that when you know it’s approved, it’s there to stay…
I think it’s fair to say I’ve conducted about a billion phone screens this year. For the most part, they go well, even if the candidate isn’t a fit for the role. What I’d like to share with you are the dumbest and most infuriating answers I’ve heard over the past 12 months since I…
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